Akamai Acquires CallTheShots

Contacts:
Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com	--or--	Felicia Spagnoli Akamai Technologies 617-613-2525 spagnoli@akamai.com

Emerging technology and talented engineering team key to acquisition

CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 9, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of CallTheShots, Inc. CallTheShots was a privately held company located in Santa Clara, CA that has focused on developing technology for Web site personalization and content aggregation.